My wife is number one in the world

Chapter 512 Returning in mid-June

The city tower stretches up and down for ten miles without end, and the flags are blowing in the wind.

Liu Mingzhi and Song Qing looked at each other: "I'm home."

Looking at the lush and leafy branches outside the city, Liu Mingzhi couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart. It's been half a year since he walked away.

No wonder the ancients would write a poem to express their longing for their old friends every time they traveled far away from home.

Liu Mingzhi finally understands their feelings, it's not an affectation, but a real feeling, the ancients may really never see each other again for a lifetime.

Yao Yao remembered that before the envoy, there was still thin snow outside the city, and the trees were still bare, but when they came back, they were already full of branches and leaves.

Looking at the gate of Dalong Jingshi complicatedly, Liu Mingzhi's eyes were slightly red.

Zhang Qian went on an envoy to the Western Regions, and he only came back and forth once every few years. How many years did he have in his life?

"I went on a mission in February and a half, and returned in mid-June."

"When I parted at the city gate, I was very excited to go."

"A lonely bird on a dead branch, the sound of cicadas hidden in dense leaves."

"Black hair turns into white hair, and a child turns into a white man."

After hearing the words, Lu Wuming looked at Liu Mingzhi indifferently: "Lord Liu, although the poems are easy to understand, they are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. My parents did not travel far, and I don't know how many people went there in their youth and returned with gray hair."

Lu Wuming's words made the 2000 members of the Dragon Mission feel sad.

Along the way, eating and sleeping in the open air, Xiaoxing's hard work of sleeping overnight is only known to himself.

"Brothers, don't be sad, you are finally home. After the official enters the palace to face the saint, you can all go home. It has been so long, and you want your parents, mother-in-law and children. Go to the city .”

"Long live the dragon, come home."

Song Qing waved his whip and rode excitedly towards the capital. The generals guarding the city knew that the envoys from the Kingdom of Jin had returned and immediately opened the city gate to let them in.

At the same time, a group of people rushed to the palace to report.

Li Zhengshu was looking at the memorial submitted by the left minister Wei Yong. It was about the locust plague in Qingzhou. Not only Qingzhou, Hezhou, but also Shengzhou had traces of locusts.

Li Zheng frowned and sighed. Tong Sansi, the prime minister on the right, had just reported the drought in Jingzhou, Mingzhou, Minzhou, and Xinzhou, and here came the locust plague again.

"Your Majesty, the drought should not be underestimated. Once the seedlings dry up and die, hundreds of thousands of people will lose their crops. Please send officials from the Ministry of Industry to control the drought to see if we can dig deep wells and open rivers to control the drought according to local conditions. "

"Your Majesty, as long as the weather is good for the drought, and there is a heavy rain, it can last for a while. The locust plague can't be delayed. Once the locusts swarm, no grass will grow, not to mention wild vegetables, even the leaves will not be eaten by the common people."

"Your Majesty, the two Prime Ministers are right. The locust plague and drought cannot be ignored. If it is not handled properly, people will mourn and refugees will rise everywhere."

Li Zheng threw the memorial on the dragon case: "Decree to exempt Qingzhou, Jingzhou, and Minzhou from autumn taxes. The household department is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the government treasuries in the northwest are sufficient to collect food for emergencies. Officials from the Ministry of Industry rushed to To deal with the drought in Mingzhou, local officials must fully support each other, and there must be no mistakes."

"Your Majesty Shengming."

"Your Majesty! Lord Liu led the mission to the Meridian Gate, and will soon arrive at the Palace of Qinzheng."

Li Zheng looked at Fu Hai below, and finally relaxed his brows after hearing his report.

"Okay, I've been waiting but I can't wait. Our handsome man in white is finally back."

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, His Majesty."

"pass."

"According to the order."

Standing outside the Hall of Qinzheng, Fuhai shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree to send the general officer in chief and the officials of the missions under his command to meet at the Hall of Qinzheng."

As soon as Fu Hai's words fell, the guards along the way began to shout continuously until they were outside the palace gate.

In half a stick of incense, Liu Mingzhi led more than a dozen key officials to walk on the wide road in the school grounds, towards the Golden Luan Hall.

"Minister, Liu Mingzhi."

"Chen Song Qing."

"Chen Lu Wuming."

"Minister Zhou Binghe."

"minister"

"Meet Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Li Zheng smiled and looked at the officials of the mission below: "Free from courtesy."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"My dear dears, you are finally back. I have been waiting so long for you. I have traveled thousands of miles to the Kingdom of Jin. You dear dears, you have worked hard."

"It is an honor to serve His Majesty."

"Liu Aiqing, how is the mission going?"

Liu Mingzhi took out a document from the cuff of his official robe: "Reporting to Your Majesty, minister Liu Mingzhi was ordered to go to Jin as an envoy to Turkic countries, to conduct diplomatic relations, discuss border crossings and trade, and minister Liu Mingzhi lived up to his entrustment and brought it back to the emperor of Jin Kingdom." Yuxi, the document sealed by the king of the Turkic Huyan Tribe, border trade, exchange of needs, and access to the four directions, the minister has completed, the document is here, please have a look at it."

Fu Hai at the side immediately took the documents and sent them to the Long Case.

Li Zheng couldn't wait to open the document, looked at the two big seals under the fifteen regulations on the document, and laughed loudly.

"Okay, that's great. Liu Aiqing's trip can be said to be a great achievement. The award will be discussed later, and all Aiqings will be included."

"Yes."

"The draft decree will be announced to the world from now on. I have made an agreement with the allies of the three kingdoms of the Kingdom of Jin to build a border mutual market in Shanhaiguan, and conduct business with the Turkic ministries of the Kingdom of Jin. Merchants and leisure farmers all over the world can apply for customs clearance documents. Outside the customs, we can communicate with the two countries, and I want to open up business channels to enrich the world."

"Your Majesty is holy, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

"Military Minister Song Yu."

"The minister is here."

"Draw up the list. The six guards of northern Xinjiang will each deploy 2000 soldiers to guard the border market together with the Turks of the Kingdom of Jin to prevent horse bandits from outside the pass from harassing the market. Generals of the six guards should not delay."

"The minister obeys the order."

"The Secretary of the Household Department, Jiang Yuanming."

"The minister is here."

"Calculate the silver required for the supervision of the border mutual market, make a list, and the household department is free to list all matters, draw up the customs clearance document, and the taxation matters of the customs export business caravans are accounted for by the household department."

"The minister obeys the order."

"The Ministry of Industry cooperates with the Ministry of Households to supervise the process of cross-border trade without delay."

"The minister obeys the order."

After arranging all the matters, Li Zheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Liu Aiqing listens."

"what?"

"You bastard, hurry up."

Young Master Liu's father-in-law snorted softly.

Liu Mingzhi immediately reacted: "My minister Liu Mingzhi listens to the order."

"Dragon envoy Liu Mingzhi, the commander-in-chief of the army, has made great achievements in his mission to the Kingdom of Jin. He has given silver to Dr. Qing Guanglu, and General Xuanwei of Yingzhou has given him the Purple Gold Seal. He has been promoted to Earl of Tongyuan, with a thousand households in the city, and one tael of silver."

All civil and military officials of the court looked at Liu Mingzhi who was kneeling on the ground with jealousy, but they didn't respond at all.

It's not that these ministers didn't have a letter of advice, but the letter of advice was a letter of advice, but Li Zheng sent it back with one sentence.

"You can use people from the Kingdom of Jin to solve the foreign troubles of the 20 soldiers of the Kingdom of Jin. Let alone the earl plus two scattered officials, I can give you kings with different surnames. Can you? Think about the Six Guards Generals How many people have been killed after guarding the northern border for decades, how can it be impossible to be promoted to an earl?"

Then there is no then.

According to the law of the dragon, if you don't go to the battlefield, you can't be a prince.

So don't look at the left minister Wei Yong, the right minister Tong Sansi still has no title.

"The minister leads the decree to thank you."

"Song Aiqing listens."

"Chen Songqing listens to the order."

"Song Aiqing's assistance in Liu Aiqing's missions also contributed a lot. He was awarded Zhengyi Doctor, granted the title of one hundred households in Anyuan County, and granted a hundred taels of gold, ten thousand taels of silver, and a pair of jade bi."

"Chen Song Qing took the decree to thank you."

"Lu Aiqing listens to the letter"

As long as all the officials on the mission have their own rewards, and they receive orders to thank them, Li Zheng can be said to be very happy.

Young Master Liu felt that it was unfair, why should others reward thousands and hundreds of taels of real gold and silver, while he only had one tael of silver, this minister is not fair.

"Your Majesty, I have brought some special products from the Kingdom of Jin to Your Majesty and your lords and put them outside the hall."

"Liu Aiqing has a heart, let me forget it, just send my share to the empress."

"Your Majesty, it's beef jerky, enough beef jerky for Your Majesty and your lords to eat for a month."

Gulp, gulp.
There were voices of swallowing saliva one after another in the Golden Luan Hall.

(End of this chapter)